Fellows & Editors
Ruxandra Guidi
- Trip:
- Fellows 2014
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Ecuador
- Year:
- 2014
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Ruxandra Guidi has over twelve years of experience working in public radio, magazines, and multimedia, and has reported throughout the United States, the Caribbean, South and Central America, as well as Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border region.
After earning a Master’s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley in 2002, she assisted independent producers The Kitchen Sisters; then worked as a reporter and producer for NPR's Latino USA, for the BBC daily public radio news program, The World, the CPB-funded Fronteras Desk in San Diego-Tijuana, and KPCC Public Radio's Immigration and Emerging Communities beat in Los Angeles.
Throughout her journalism career, Guidi has collaborated with many other journalists, and produced magazine features and radio documentaries for the BBC World Service, BBC Mundo, National Public Radio, Marketplace, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Orion Magazine, The Walrus Magazine, Guernica Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, National Geographic NewsWatch, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Atlantic, among others. She’s a native of Caracas, Venezuela.
Guidi was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from Haiti in 2008.
Stories
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Where To Next?
The Shipibo indigenous community moved to Peru's capital Lima about two decades ago when their habitat was destroyed by logging, illegal mining and the construction of roads in the jungle. But...
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Ecuador Lures Back Its Diaspora With Social Spending and Opportunity
Last April, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa took his weekly radio show "Enlace Cuidadano" on the road to the Italian city of Genoa. He wasn't there for the salami. ...
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Ecuadorian Women Take the Lead as Men Migrate Away
In the region of Cañar, deep in the Ecuadorean Andes, out migration has become an unending cycle for more than four decades. Many people in Ecuador view Cañar...
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Ecuador: Can President Correa’s Popularity Keep Him in Office Indefinitely?
A meme circulating on social media features a portrait of Ecuador’s controversial president, Rafael Correa, winking at the camera. The image is split down the middle, with one...
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A Boon for the Women of Ecuador
For the 60,000 residents of this rural county of green hills and small villages, migration is something of a rite of passage. The share of Cañar’s people leaving the...
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Press Freedom in Ecuador
'Diario Hoy', one of Ecuador's most respectable dailies, used to publish a print edition for 32 years. But recently, the daily circulation of the paper was reduced to a weekend edition and...
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Ecuador’s Diario HOY Moves Online: A Sign of More to Come in Latin America?
A printing press sits idle in Diario HOY, one of Ecuador's most respectable dailies, with a roll of blank paper still fed into the machine. For 32 years Diario HOY was...
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Earthquake devastates Haiti
The presidential palace was, at least at the time of my visit a little over a year ago, one of the most solid-looking buildings in Port-au-Prince. Located at the center of the...
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Why is Foreign Aid Failing Haiti?
Ruxandra Guidi is a freelance radio and print news correspondent. During her five-week IRP Fellowship Guidi traveled to Haiti to examine the effects of foreign aid on human rights, violence and poverty....
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Haiti Trash Problem Becomes International Issue
Brazil, South Africa and India are joining forces to clean up Haiti. In a partnership dubbed the "South-South" cooperation, they're overhauling Haiti's thoroughly inadequate state trash collection system.
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Audio Gallery: The Burden of Aid
During her five-week IRP Fellowship Guidi traveled to Haiti to examine the effects of foreign aid on human rights, violence and poverty. This gallery, with photos by Roberto "Bear" Guerra and music...
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Haitian Loan Program Rewards Advancement
The idea is simple: Haitian women take a small loan and commit to a program to improve their family's standard of living. The better they do improving their lives, the more...
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Geo Answer: Haiti
Today's Geo Quiz takes us to a fishing village in northern Haiti where the beach is owned by a major cruise line and the locals don't get to use it....
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Global Hit: Haiti’s walking jukebox
Now to another city -- this one Haiti's capital -- Port-au-Prince. It's a poor though lively city. Many there survive on less than two dollars a day. Quite a few...
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What does Venezuela want from Haiti
Venezuela is trying to increase its influence throughout Central and South America — in particular Haiti. In the aftermath of summer storms, Venezuela has been contributing significant amounts of aid to the...
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Help for Haiti
Correspondent Ruxandra Guidi reports on the state of the humanitarian crisis in Haiti. Four back-to-back storms have pummeled the area since August....leaving hundreds of thousands of victims in need of food,...
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Haiti: How do You Aid a Failed State?
"When people talk about my country, they refer to it as a failed state," said Pierre Joaquim, an unemployed 26-year-old who stood outside the Haitian National Police headquarters in Port-au-Prince. "But I...
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UN attempts tough police reform in Haiti
Training a police force in Haiti has been a huge challenge for the United Nations mission there. It's working with the remnants of a force with a notorious legacy of brutality. ...
Blog Posts RSS
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August 14, 2014 | by Guidi, Ruxandra
Quito Portrait #5: Polivio Morocho Guaman
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August 14, 2014 | by Guidi, Ruxandra
The Kids Who Leave, And Those Who Stay Behind
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August 14, 2014 | by Guidi, Ruxandra
Postcards from Invisible Cities #4
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August 14, 2014 | by Guidi, Ruxandra
Coconuts on the Sand
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August 14, 2014 | by Guidi, Ruxandra
Quito Portrait #4: Tomás Echeverria
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